Adaptation Quotes

"There is a point to changes like these. I have to move on to other things, to other conceptions of myself. I play golf. I still work. And I can be pretty happy just walking the land."

- Morgan Freeman

"Accepting pain can be difficult. It’s just better than the alternative, which is to live in a state of perpetual suffering."

- Vidyamala Burch & Danny Penman

"if you resist the messages that your mind and body are sending you, those messages will keep on being dispatched (and felt) until you accept them [...] If you mindfully accept (or feel) these messages, they will have done their job and will tend to melt away of their own accord."

- Vidyamala Burch & Danny Penman

"Acceptance doesn’t mean resignation; it means understanding that something is what it is and that there's got to be a way through it."

- Michael J. Fox

"Basically, the idea is, you try to reset your pain threshold. Because a lot of times what happens with pain is you‘re constantly mourning for how it used to feel."

- George Clooney

"I thought I was going to die [but] I've gone from where I can't function, where ‘I just can't live like this' to ‘I've got a bad headache.'"

- George Clooney

"It's been a long recovery … You can't mourn for how you used to feel … You have to come to terms with it."

- George Clooney

"I was willing to accept what I couldn't change."

- A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

"I can't go out on the track and do the same old thing, it won't work."

- Lightning McQueen

"Enjoying success requires the ability to adapt. Only by being open to change will you have a true opportunity to get the most from your talent."

- Nolan Ryan

"It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change."

- Charles Darwin

"Unfortunately, injuries are part of the game and you have to adapt, keep faith, trust and never give up."

- Raphael Varane

"Everything we design is a response to the specific climate and culture of a particular place."

- Norman Foster

"You can’t just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they’ll want something new"

- Steve Jobs

"You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you."

- Brian Tracy

"Nothing in life is so hard that you can’t make it easier by the way you take it."

- Ellen Glasgow

"There are two ways of meeting difficulties: You alter the difficulties, or you alter yourself to meet them."

- Phyllis Bottome

"Everyone has their good and bad days. You just have to go with the flow and make the most of whatever comes your way."

- Andrea Jeremiah

""You can’t just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they’ll want something new""

- Steve Jobs

"Things never go as planned, so you need to always be ready to think on the fly. Always know that if you have a certain plan, it most likely won’t end up that way."

- Blaise Bevilacqua

"For every failure, there’s an alternative course of action. You just have to find it. When you come to a roadblock, take a detour."

- Mary Kay Ash

""It’s no longer about interrupting, pitching, and closing. It is about listening, diagnosing, and prescribing.""

- Mark Roberge

""Don't find customers for your products, find products for your customers.""

- Seth Godin

"Treat objections as requests for further information."

- Brian Tracy

"It is not the strongest or the most intelligent who will survive but those who can best manage change"

- Charles Darwin

"Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change"

- Stephen Hawking

"Don't fight your pain; you can't win. The paradox of recovery is that you have to surrender to win. Accepting what you cannot change makes the difference."

"வெள்ளம் பாய்ந்து வரும் பொழுது நாம் நிமிர்ந்து நின்று எதிர்ப்பது விவேகமல்ல.. வளைந்து கொடுத்தோம் என்றால் மிதந்து செல்லலாம்."

"Life is full of surprises. Take them in stride and never lose sight of your goals."

"Marching in rain brings out the rainbow of skills"